December 01, 2009

FB is becoming email. instead of sending me email, ppl look me up on FB and send a message. and then probably encompany it with a friend request. people who are yet not planning to really be friends with me. yesterday i got a note regarding art exhibition in italy for example. okay, fine. but to send a friend request also? come on. its becomeing a combined email/address book or whatever. of course if thats what it goes to, i wont hold back forever. but it makes it more and more impersonal and im not very inspired to upload photos or anything else with really random people as my 'friends'. ive still kept my standards with whom i add, but i am willing to go with what seems to be common and most widely accepted in the future. its not THAT big of a deal, ill just adjust to it. take off my messenger address, phone number... but this stage where its still a bit unclear i am annoyed.

instead of suggesting me to import EVERYONE I EVER SENT EMAIL TO.... FB could suggest me how the fuck to automatically make separate groups for actual friends and those outside that group...

come on. if i sent an email to someone in 2005, i still might not want to be FB friends.

after venting, i decided to be proactive for once. so i created a "not so friends" type of list, to which i can include the...not so friends. and while creating this list, i blocked my contact info and personal photos etc from this group. and i went through the friend requests and accepted some familiar names, like some people from dA etc and also some that i have several mutual friends with... so they get my basic profile and status updates (was considering to block those too but maybe not yet, i never update my status anyway, and not with anything too personal).

there is still some space for development in FB though. i dont think there is a tool for automatically leaving a certain group out of the friends feed? so i have to manually hide each person... also, i would definitely like to block events from this group, art gallerists and musicians are most likely to send event requests to EVERYONE. i fuckin hate event requests that dont concern me in any way. i dont care if your shitty band has its first or 300th gig in Albequerque next week. im not coming! fuck.

i think FB starts deleting over a yr old friends requests? or maybe not. but it seems like the amount of pending requests might have gone down?

1 comment:

Girl yo ass is deep. I can feel some of that BS that you go through. How can I be down with your clique cause y0u are banging. I am trying to build my blogs and I think I have found the hero I need. Holla back. PJackson.uunbarbegrl

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who is who

Arttu - my ex and best friend. musician and IT-entrepreneur.Avner & Elmor - friends of partly israeli origin in London.Carina - a swedish friend of mine whom i met in Istanbul.Carilyn - a puerto rican friend my age whom i met in Istanbul at an Internations event.cousin B - cousin with a B in her name. we've always been close and we are the same age.dad - lives in Austria with his new family of 5 kids. works as an embassy caretaker.doctor - my husband (since August 2015). he is my age. turkish. likes art movies. we met through hospitalityclub.org in early 2010.F (former him) - a nice handsome guy I dated for 1.5yrs in 07-08. we met at work.Hanna - a swedish friend, we met when working for the translation agency in Istanbul.K - a fellow blogger. an easy going male, works in the music business.Kev - online/rl friend, a photographer in canada. we have love for hockey in common, thats how we met online in 2002.Marianne (former mnoo) - a finnish photographer living in London. we met online in 2004 or so.Melisa - a turkish finnish documentary director, a friend of mine in IstanbulMiriam - a smart german feminist girl living in [changes often]. a few yrs my junior. we met online in 2004 perhaps.miss R - ex coworker from internet provider customer service, a few yrs younger than me, now works in the field of logistics.mom- lives 3 hours away from Helsinki. retired because of severe illness. died sept 2010.muuli - photographer. we met online in 2003, when he was only 17 or something.Otto - Arttu's brother, architect/IT entrepreneurSebastian - ex-hairdresser, now prison guard, MMA practitionerSenni - a finnish girl (tourist guide) in Istanbul that became my friendBUNILLA - my PC since Oct 2016. (Chillblast Fusion Tranquillity 2 Silent PC)16GB RAM, Intel i7-6700K 4 cores, W10 on 256Gb SSD, 4+2TB hard driveSUPERPUPU- my PC in 08-16. 8GB RAM, 1000GB HD, Intel Q66004 cores, NVIDIA 8600GT Silent. TURKPUPU - my beloved laptop. 4GB RAM, 320GB, Intel Pentium Dual Core T4400, 17,3". Tiitta - a friend/model in my photos. cat owner :)Volkan and Ilcin - good turkish friends whom i met through the internet, helped me settle in istanbul.